ChangingAging Editorial Guidelines

This is where you submit guest blog posts to ChangingAging. If you just have a quick question, click here.

At ChangingAging™ we believe there is potential for growth and development no matter your age or condition, so we’re always looking for stories, videos and photos from people celebrating the aging experience. We welcome people of all ages and backgrounds to submit questions about aging or caregiving, personal stories or guest blogposts, especially if it helps shed light on what comes after adulthood. Are you changing aging? Tell us about it!

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

Changing Aging: We’re looking for stories that help reframe public perceptions of aging by challenging the declinist status quo and telling the new story that aging equals growth.

JOURNEYS: We need your stories to change aging. What’s it really like getting old? We welcome stories from people of all ages (we are all growing!) but in particular from those who are exploring the uncharted waters of “Not-Adulthood”. Do we have any Crones reading this? Any Sages? We need to hear from you.

INNOVATIONS: How is technology, science, culture, art and philosophy changing the way we age and take care of each other? We’re interested in everything from the latest gadgets to breakthrough trends in caregiving.

WHAT NOT TO SUBMIT

ChangingAging will reject submissions that perpetuate negative stereotypes about aging and violate the FrameWorks Institute’s recommendations for Reframing Aging (see webinar above). In particular, we will reject stories that:

Cue individualism (“lifestyle choice,” “financial planning,” “control,” “responsibility”) that attributes healthy aging to individual choices and fails to acknowledge the importance of social supports and systems.

Use images or textual cues that “otherize” older Americans and perpetuate an “us” vs. “them” mentality.

Activate zero sum in discussions about scarcity of resources (“pies,” “pools” and other limited resource metaphors) aimed at framing elders as a burden on society.